I was testing some radical changes I made to FF units. I was trying to make something like a WWI situ where only British have tanks, Germans have only rifles and MGs. I was trying defense. I was given this situaton, 2626358, where the point to be defended is forward of the allowable deployment zone. The first time I played, I was British. The game was lost in 1 minute, no losses to either side and I was accused of extreme cowardice! I decided to try again. I changed sides.
Here is the Mission spec: 2626358 defend, inf n tanx, avg ,jul 40 ,lowlands, france, you=Br, En=ger.

I had to send troops straight to the farm, and had three MG squads in sp.
Here the troops, already under fire, are trying to get to the defence objective. Only 1 or 2 got into the farm.
7:34 inf are surendn
8: arty
9m en on ash hil to SSE
14 OC kia
15 all HQ kia
16:30 en appeared to be retreating! I built my hopes up a bit.

At the start, I fired aimed arty and dropped mortar shells just north of obj to keep enemy off it until my forces arrived.

Moved mg team to top of Ash Hill for supp. fire.

Ordered 2 squads & recon unit to obj from ctr & right.

Ordered 1 squad on left to engage town on left side. This unit was sacrificed to keep the enemy busy while I secured obj.

I then just held on and fired arty & mortar & MG at hillside NW of obj to keep the enemy off while they proceeded to push through my lefthand squad and move around and come up from the south. It was all over by 40 minutes, though the game ran for the full 2 hours as I would not move any of my units off obj to engage the enemy as they were too low on ammo.

I took a screenshot of the end screen - if you want to see it I can email it to you.

I sent you the cap. Looking at your squads, they are strange - you have multiple HMG teams in each? Are you representing a company's heavy weapons platoon? Also, I just noticed that I played it as the german instead of British. I used a standard assortment of units: 3 inf squads, 1 light mortar, 1 HMG, 1 recon.

Just played 2 games as the British. Lost the first, won the second. Used the same line up and tactics as when I played the Germans, but shose 2 mortars instead of the HMG in the second game.

It's the same kinda deal, though, in that you have top let the game run the full 2 hrs to get the victory, as the enemy troops just mill about to the south for a long time, never really making a puch for the obj after the 30 minute mark.

Don't give up now! I'd hope someone else can beat it. I only won 50% of my games. I think the AI sets up their infantry slightly differently each time; I noticed the enemy troops coming heaviest from different directions - village on the left, hill in center, woods to right - in different games. The times I won they seemed to be heaviest on the left, and seemed to draw down to my diversionary squad there instead of cutting directly to the obj. I've often noticed that one AI tendancy to go towards resistance rather than always straight towards the obj, which I like and adds a bit of additional realism.

Thanks Knut for the pep message. I must keep that earlier 19 minute survival in mind. I did notice that on different runs there seemed to be more from the left thru the village, or from the right thru the wood.

Wow! That is a hard map. The objective was in enemy hands within 30 seconds of game start. I had a Bren carrier, they had two SdKfz 251 and a one of those scout cars with a 20mm gun. So, we got overrun pretty quickly.

However, did you mean "infantry only" instead of "infantry and tanks"?

With tanks, you just rush the objective. With infantry only, you have to put more thought into it.

Edit - On infantry only they have about 115 guys. Buying only squads, I could afford less than 60.

T2K wrote:However, did you mean "infantry only" instead of "infantry and tanks"?

On infantry only they have about 115 guys. Buying only squads, I could afford less than 60.

Sorry I did not make that completely clear. In order to model WW1, I removed all the german tank files from the Firefight tank folder. That means that even if I specify inf & tanks, the germans can only have infantry. When I played the british, I only chose infantry.

I havn't tried it with tanks yet.

I am not sure what happens when I choose inf & tanks. The AI seems to choose not to have tanks sometimes. I choose not to if its forests or hills, I often use hollow charge wpns to defend with.

When its inf&tanks I seem to get more points to spend, than if it's only inf.

I played it exactly as you described (inf and tanks, Jul 1940, etc) and the Germans hade two half-tracks and one of those 8-wheeled scout cars with a a 20mm. So, three vehicles. I had only a Bren gun carrier which got knocked out by the 20mm. Hopeless.

I played it again on the same one and bought a Matilda! I won, but only by parking it on the objective and waiting the fulll two hours. It knocked out the German vehicles, obviously. EVERY infantryman was killed or surrendered. Luckily, if your HQ group surrenders, the game goes on.